disarticulate

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Attention! isn't trying to disarticulate the whole idea of ordered writing.

From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2013

I was next awakened by the sudden and persistent thought that I must have a flag, and accordingly set to work to disarticulate the frozen legs of my dead dogs.

From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

In very many grasses the rachis is continuous, but in a few cases it consists of internodes or joints which disarticulate at maturity.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Whenever it is possible, cut the bone through its continuity rather than disarticulate.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph

Tendrils which have caught nothing soon shrink and wither; but in some species of Bignonia they disarticulate and fall off like leaves in autumn.

From The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants by Darwin, Charles